MANAGEMENT CONSULTING AND SPARRING

Advising management and board of directors

Sparring with integrity

Sparring with integrity and professional expertise is essential to every company. We take our many years of experience in operation of enterprises as a starting point. By means of sparring we are able to identify and clarify your needs. If we are not able to help you in all aspects, we have a partner who is.

Our approach should not be considered as a guide to how you should do, rather a practical approach to strategic action. We continuously keep track of your business, and we participate in the day-to-day operation according to your needs.

HERE’S HOW

– from challenge to solution and result

Customer case Management advice and sparring

PLEASE NOTE:
We treat all our customers with full confidentiality. That’s why we don’t name our cases.

CHALLENGE

Newly appointed managing director with focus on and competencies within sales, marketing and strategy lacks economic rationale for decisions about day-to-day operations.

SOLUTION

Sparring with external financial manager Plan for extended competencies

RESULT

The managing director has knowledge of economic terms, understands the financial consequences of a decision concerning the operation and is able to present to the board of directors.

Professional advice

There are several roles to fulfil in the daily operation, from visions, strategy and board duties to the day-to-day working. One single person cannot perform them all, and there will always be roles that come more naturally than others. We’ll help you express the roles in words as well as the tasks that fall within this scope. We know how to step into the roles, and we can also help you getting the foundation into place, enabling you to recruit a permanent employee more easily.
This often involves:

MANAGEMENT AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Establishing a management team
Establishing management meetings with a profitable agenda
Establishing goals for the company and the individual employees
Execution of strategy
Reporting to the board of directors
Being part of the board
Reporting to parent company
Reporting to management team

Day-to-day operations and administration

Training on using the Microsoft Office suite, usually Excel and Word
Structure, organization of e-mail correspondence and calendar
Contracts with customers, dealers and employees
Contact person for public authorities, trade unions, etc.
General efficiency improvement and streamlining

Human resource management

Establishment of appraisal interviews
Establishing goals for the company and the individual employees
Adapting resources

Finances

Training in cost accounting
Preparation of business cases
Investment estimates
Divestment of production units
Merger of business in practice
Overview of competitors’ economics and initiatives
Financial plans, long-term (typically 5 years), but also on an annual basis

Anette challenges both the managing director and the board of directors

Anette got to grips with the accounting, which needed a thorough clean-up. Our cooperation with Anette has worked smoothly. It’s our experience that Anette cares about the health of the company, and we have full confidence in her work.

Anette is good at structuring and setting up things. She’s good at instituting things in active co-operation with the managing director and the board of directors. She enters the company with greater independence because of her position as an external accounts manager.

We have received good sparring every step of the way. Anette challenges both the managing director and the board of directors. She initiates actions in the accounting department. What Anette does is not ‘just’ bookkeeping, rather she takes care of the problems and gives input to how we proceed. She is not ‘just’ a typical controller.

Søren Hvilshøj, bestyrelsesformand i Protectors

ENVAC

“Working with Anette and Skovborg & Co. has been an overall positive experience. At the time when we set up Envac as a small department in Denmark, we decided to outsource the entire finance function to Anette. I greatly appreciate Anette’s professional approach, the quality of her reports and her financial planning of the day-to-day operation. She has done a great job both with respect to the finance part and by virtue of her participation in board meetings.

One of the most important things for a chairman of the board is to have complete confidence in and feel comfortable about the economy of the company. In relation to the current situation as well as with a view to the continued development. Anette is fully in control of the economy and has performed with respect to keeping the board up-to-date as well as to planning ahead.

One of Anette's greatest strengths is her professional approach and her personal commitment. She handles the entire finance function and at the same time manages to develop it. She has provided significant support both to the chairman of the board and to the CEO of our local Danish department.”

Joakim Karlsson, CEO at Envac AB and Group Executive Board

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